Convenient and Affordable Paths Toward Completing Your Degree

We offer different delivery models for our bachelor's completion programs, depending on the degree, to accommodate the needs of adult learners. Campus-based and accelerated hybrid programs are offered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with some degrees being offered exclusively online. Associate's degree holders from certain local community colleges can continue their studies in a bachelor's degree program right on their community college campus.

Online and Campus-Based and Programs in Cambridge, Massachusetts

We have helped thousands of adults complete bachelor's degrees in psychology, social sciences, management, and education. We will work with you to create a manageable, affordable degree plan that includes:

Getting credit for what you already know from life and work experience

Transferring college-level credits that you have already earned from previous coursework

Identifying what you
still need to learn

Generous Transfer Credit Policy

We accept up to 90 transfer credits toward our campus-based and online 120-credit degree programs. This means that you may need only 30 additional credits — equivalent to 10 courses — to earn a Bachelor’s degree from Lesley University. Learn more about transcript requirements.

Credit for Work and Life Experience

You may be closer to the completion of a Bachelor’s degree than you realize. Our Prior Learning Assessment (PLA) course, offered on-campus and online, will help you identify college-level knowledge you already possess and teach you how to document it for up to 45 credits—another way you can save time and money. Learn more about credit for prior learning.

Supportive Academic Advising from Start to Finish

The first action you will take as an accepted student is to meet with your academic advisor to review credit for prior learning and discuss your goals. Your advisor will work with you from the initial degree-planning meeting through graduation, offering personalized support and guidance at every step along the way. Meet our academic advisors.

Lesley at Bunker Hill Community College

We have teamed up with Bunker Hill Community College to provide another path toward bachelor's degree completion.

Awarded to a student who is accepted in the Center for the Adult Learner as an undergraduate pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in the Early Childhood Studies program or is a graduate of the adult learning program pursuing a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Education in the Graduate School of Education. Learn More.